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High-cost housing
creates desperate
living conditions
CITY INSPECTOR FINDS FAMILIES LIVING
IN SHEDS, CHILDREN IN CLOSETS
By Daniel DeBolt
A
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From left: Polly Caddes, Jennifer Schonher and Tom Schonher stretch out in a lunge position at the
new yoga class at Shoreline Lake.
Floating yoga at Shoreline
CITY’S NEWEST FITNESS ACTIVITY MIXES YOGA
WITH STAND-UP PADDLEBOARDS
By Daniel DeBolt
T
he newest activity at the Shoreline Lake
Aquatic Center is an unusual sight — a
Saturday morning yoga class bobbing in
the middle of the lake.
Making use of stand-up paddleboards, the
group of floating yoga practitioners have the
added challenge of not falling into the water. The
wind usually blows the group across the lake several times before the hour-and-fifteen-minute
class is up.
After a class on July 13, participants were
enthusiastic.
See YOGA, page 13
Memorial named for fallen Marine
LOCAL MILITARY PROCESSING CENTER NAMING CEREMONIAL
HALL AFTER MATTHEW MANOUKIAN
By Nick Veronin
A
lthough he is sure his son,
who was very humble,
wouldn’t have wanted the
fanfare, Pete Manoukian said
he and his family are honored
that the military has decided to
name a ceremonial hall inside
the San Jose Military Entrance
INSIDE
Processing Station after his son,
Capt. Matthew Manoukian,
who died while serving in the
Marine Corps in Afghanistan
last August.
“We were very flattered,” Manoukian said, recalling the day he
and his wife, Patricia Bamattre
Manoukian, heard that the processing station located at Moffett
Field would be named to commemorate the life and service of
their late son. “That’s the facility
he went through when he enlisted. We’re just very honored.”
A Marine from birth
Capt. Matthew Manoukian
knew he wanted to be a Marine
as far back as age 8, according
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s the cost of living in
Mountain View climbs, a
city inspector says that in
recent years he’s found families
living in shocking conditions
— children sleeping with their
parents in garden sheds and in
the closets of cockroach-infested
apartments.
“The one that was the worst
for me was seeing two kids and
a mother and father living in a
storage shed,” said code inspector Chris Costanzo, recalling a
discovery he made in 2012 in the
Rex Manor neighborhood.
“There was a crib and little
tiny bed and it was obvious
there was an infant and a toddler and two people living there.
It was clean and it wasn’t ratinfested, but it wasn’t habitable.
It was like living in something
a little bigger than a bathroom,
with no true insulation from the
elements and no running water.
It was pretty sad.”
to his father.
At first, Manoukian speculated, his son
was probably
drawn to the
heroic portrayal of Marines
in the movies Capt. Matthew
Manoukian
and on TV, just
like many young boys. But as he
grew older, he never gave up on
his childhood goal.
“For him it was always like a calling,” his father said. “He just knew
that’s what he wanted to do.”
No place
like home
This is the first in
a series of stories
about the increasingly high
cost of housing in
Mountain View.
The young couple living in
the shed seemed “down on
their luck” but were able to find
somewhere else to stay pretty
quickly, Costanzo said. “They
didn’t want to be there because
it was cold.”
Living situations for poorer
Mountain View residents may
become more desperate as rents
climb at unprecedented rates.
According to the data service Real
Facts, the average rent in Mountain View for a three-bedroom,
one-bathroom apartment is now
$3,044 a month, up from $2,295
See HOUSING, page 14
It was just a matter of whether
he ought to join straight out of
high school or go to college first,
Manoukian said of his son.
The younger Manoukian
originally decided he would go
through college before enlisting
but things changed after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11., which
rocked his conscience shortly
after he began his undergraduate studies.
He immediately went to enlist,
but was delayed because of an
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Two bikes were stolen from a garage on the 100 block of
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The victim told police that he left his garage open on July
21 between 12:45 p.m. and 1:45 p.m., according to Sgt. Dan
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FBI RAID
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The local witness, who lives in the apartment complex at
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‘Plan Bay Area’ aligns
with city’s vision
PLANNING DIRECTOR SAYS NEW REGIONAL
PLAN MESHES WITH MV’S GOALS
By Bay City News Service
and Mountain View Voice staff
A
MAGALI GAUTHIER
Jenny Shen, 16, examines her water sample at the new STEM camp held at Foothill College.
Diving into science
KIDS AT FOOTHILL’S NEW SCIENCE SUMMER CAMP
PLAY WITH WATER TO LEARN CHEMISTRY
By Nick Veronin
T
his week, high-schoolers
dove into a subject that
at first glance might
seem rather mundane. But
according to Los Altos High
School chemistry teacher Danielle Paige, there is nothing tepid about her two-week course
on the chemistry of water at
the STEM Summer Camp at
Foothill College.
“Water is actually really fascinating,” Paige said as she
helped a trio of students work
their way through an exercise
using an electrical current to
separate the liquid’s hydrogen
and hydroxide ions. “Water
is unique, because it can kind
of behave in a variety of ways.
And so all these different
activities are really to get them
to see how amazing water is.”
The classroom, located inside
Foothill College’s new Physical
Sciences & Engineering Center, was filled with a number
of water-based experiments.
One exercise demonstrated
that cold water is denser than
warm water, while another
showed how adding soap to
water could change the liquid’s
surface tension.
The course, or “cohort,” on
water, is the fourth and final
installment of the new summer
camp, which began this year at
Foothill. Camps focusing on
the STEM subjects of science,
technology, engineering and
math are nothing new in Silicon Valley, but this program is
in its first year at Foothill.
According to Peter Murray,
dean of the physical sciences,
See STEM, page 11
Measure M ruled unconstitutional
INITIATIVE TO CAP SALARY OF HOSPITAL EMPLOYEES INVALIDATED BY JUDGE
By Nick Veronin
M
easure M, the voterapproved initiative to
cap executives salaries
at El Camino Hospital, has been
declared unconstitutional by
Santa Clara County Superior
Court judge.
In a ruling filed on July 17,
Superior Court Judge Socrates P.
Manoukian wrote, “El Camino
Hospital may provide compensation to its administrators,
executives and managers without
regard to the limit imposed by
Measure M.”
Introduced through the initiative process, Measure M sought
to limit the amount anyone
working for El Camino Hospital could earn to no more than
twice the salary of the governor
of California — a cap that would
have impacted the organization’s
top six executives.
Proponents of the measure,
which initially included a local
chapter of the SEIU-UHW,
argued that voters had a right
to limit executive pay, because
El Camino receives taxpayer
dollars from the El Camino
Healthcare District. However,
See MEASURE M, page 12
tives aligned with objectives in
our general plan,” Tsuda said.
“I don’t anticipate any major
impact or change to the city of
Mountain View.”
The South Bay is projected to
see a major growth in both jobs
and housing. Forecasts in the
plan say Mountain View will
see 15,640 news jobs (33 percent
growth) and 9,400 new homes
(28 percent growth) between
2010 and 2040.
coalition of Bay Area leaders late Thursday night,
July 18, approved a controversial plan designed to accommodate population growth over
the next few decades while meeting state mandates for cutting air
pollution and improving access
to public transportation.
The final vote on “Plan Bay
Area” came during a marathon
joint meeting of the Metropolitan Transportation Commission
Protesting the plan
(MTC) and the Association of
On Wednesday, several hunBay Area Governments (ABAG) dred people packed a Marriott
at the Oakland Marriott.
ballroom to protest the plan,
The two groups are made up of voicing concerns that it will bring
21 Bay Area county supervisors, overcrowded housing developmayors and other local leaders.
ments and will bypass local
Years in the making, the plan control over development. Many
has caused anxieties in cities arrived on buses from Marin and
throughout the region where Santa Clara counties.
officials have long maintained
Hundreds of attendees from
that the housing
groups such as
and job forecasts
Discontent with
in the document
Plan Bay Area
‘I don’t anticipate said they believe
are far too high.
The housing
such a plan should
forecast used any major impact be subject to a
for the plan prevote and
... to the city of public
dicts the need
toted signs and
for an additional
“Let us
Mountain View.’ chanted
660,000 housevote!” or “MTC,
PLANNING DIRECTOR
holds in the Bay
don’t speak for
RANDY TSUDA
Area between
me!
2010 and 2040,
That sentiment
an average of
was shared in an
22,000 a year. It
80-person profocuses much of
test in Mountain
the housing growth at cities with View the Monday before the
a high number of jobs, includ- meeting at the Rose Market,
ing San Francisco, San Jose and where organizers said the 200Oakland.
unit apartment development
The plan would provide funds proposed to displace a slew of
to cities that direct housing beloved businesses at the corner
development along transit cor- of Castro Street and El Camino
ridors in efforts to reduce sprawl Real was an example of what
and encourage environmen- Plan Bay Area would require.
tally sustainable development.
A resolution approved by
Groups like the Committee for ABAG on July 18 says “the plan
Green Foothills lauded the plan’s is not intended to dictate local
approval.
land use policy or development
Mountain View planning approvals” and would “increase
director Randy Tsuda said he housing choices by providing
didn’t anticipate any impacts to incentives for qualifying develthe city’s existing plans for devel- opment projects.”
opment through 2030, a vision
At the meeting, several dozdeveloped during years of com- en others from Oakland-based
munity meetings to create a new public transit advocacy group
general plan — a blueprint for the TransForm carried yellow signs
future development in the city.
See PLAN BAY AREA, page 14
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Facebook executive chef Josef
Desimone was killed in a motorcycle accident Monday morning,
July 22, according to a Facebook
post by the social media companyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s CEO, Mark Zuckerberg.
Mountain View firefighters
posted photos and a tribute to
Desimone on the fire departmentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Facebook page, thanking
him for his help with the annual
pancake breakfast.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Josef believed in giving back to
the community and was an integral part of our annual Pancake
Breakfast team. We will miss
Josefâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s big smile, larger than life
personality, and commitment to
giving back to the community,â&#x20AC;?
the post said.
Zuckerberg described â&#x20AC;&#x153;Chef
Josef,â&#x20AC;? who worked for the Menlo
Park company since 2008, as a
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Facebook legend and institution.â&#x20AC;? Off the job, he exemplified a
commitment to â&#x20AC;&#x153;giving back more
in life than he took,â&#x20AC;? Zuckerberg
wrote. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Almost every weekend he
was volunteering with veteransâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;
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A Facebook post by the companyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s chief operating officer, Sheryl Sandberg, described Desimone
as â&#x20AC;&#x153;a dedicated colleague who
cared deeply about all of those
around him, a perfectionist who
worked hard each day to give his
very best to his community, and
an inspiration.â&#x20AC;?
Details of the accident were
unavailable as of Tuesday morning, July 23.
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JACQUELINE VALENTINE WISE
Jacqueline Valentine Wise died
in Mountain View on July 22 at
the age of 84.
She was born in Santa Rosa to
Anna and Alfred Valentine on
August 6, 1928 and grew up in
Sebastopol. She graduated from
Analy High School in 1946 and
received a bachelorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s degree in
English, history and education
from Mount Saint Maryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s College
in 1950. She married William
LaVay Wise III in 1949 and lived
in Palo Alto, Edmunds, Wash.
and then moved to Mountain
View in 1963.
She worked at
the Mountain View Library
for 26 years as the inter-library
loan officer and enjoyed helping
people find information from
books she secured from near and
far, including China and Russia.
Her family said she enjoyed gardening, working in her orchard,
pottery, playing the piano, music,
game shows, puzzles and lifelong
learning. She passed this love of
learning to her children, family members said. She had a vast
interest in flying and in the space
program, waking her children to
watch every significant launch,
landing and scientific exploit.
She is survived by her five children, Larry Wise of Cupertino,
Steve Wise of Elk Grove, Sandy
Ogden of Cassel, Calif., Teri
Waldman of Mountain View
and Patti McLain of Carmichael,
Calif; her two sisters, Marlene
Anderson of Menlo Park and
Kathleen Beltrame of San
Mateo; her former husband,
William LaVay
Wise III; 15
grandchildren;
and two greatgrandchildren.
Jacqueline
A Rosary and Valentine
Wise
vigil will be
held at at 5 p.m. on Thursday,
July 25, at Cusimano Colonial
Mortuary, 96 W. El Camino Real,
Mountain View.
The funeral Mass will be held
on Friday, July 26, at 10 a.m. at
St. Simon Church, 1860 Grant
Road, Los Altos. Interment will
be at Sebastopol Memorial Lawn
cemetery, 7951 Bodega Ave. in
Sebastopol on Saturday, July 27.
In lieu of flowers, memorial
donations may be made to the
American Heart Association.
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Vicencio, public information officer with the Mountain View
Police Department
The man was staying at the Hotel Avante, located at 860 E. El
Camino Real, Vicencio said. There were no witnesses and no
video surveillance of the crime. Police currently have no suspect
in the case.
â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Mountain View Voice staff
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SETI astronomer discovers
moon orbiting Neptune
By Nick Veronin
A
SETI astronomer has discovered a previously unknown
moon orbiting the eighth planet from the sun, Neptune.
Mark Showalter, who works with the Mountain View-based
SETI discovered the moon — temporarily dubbed S/2004 N
1 — on July 1, while studying the planet’s rings, or “arcs.”
According to a press release
issued by SETI, Showalter had
to run images, collected by the
Hubble Space Telescope, through
special processors in order to
clearly see the moon, which
is only about 12 miles across
and “roughly 100 million times
fainter than the faintest start that
can be seen with the naked eye.”
Because the moons and
other debris orbiting Neptune
move very quickly, pictures of
the rings smear together. “The
moon is too faint to be seen in
individual images, but can be
seen clearly when sets of 8-10
images are added together.”
In total, the astronomer had
to process 150 Hubble images,
taken between 2004 and 2009, to determine that the moon was
actually there.
After gathering that data, Showalter was able to determine the
moon orbits the blue-green planet once every 23 hours.
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had injured
playing
football
at
St. Francis High School. After
surgery to replace his knee and
another procedure to remove
a benign tumor discovered
on his spinal chord, he finally
enlisted and began training at
the U.S. Marine Corps Officer
Candidate School in Quantico,
Va. â&#x20AC;&#x201D; finishing his studies at
the end of 2006 and shipping off
to Camp Pendleton in Southern
California to prepare for deployment.
Multiple tours
Capt. Manoukian deployed
for his first tour of duty in 2007,
shipping off to a town called
Anah in the Al-Anbar Province
of western Iraq.
According to his father, Manoukian was passionate about
helping the locals rebuild after
the fall of Saddam Hussein â&#x20AC;&#x201D;
working hard and taking risks
in an effort to show that he and
his men were not there simply as
an occupying force.
He got his men out of their
Humvees and on foot patrols
more often and would often take
his helmet off when meeting
with locals. â&#x20AC;&#x153;If you want to be
friends with people, you have to
show you trust them,â&#x20AC;? he said,
explaining his sonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s rationale.
During his tour in Iraq, Manoukian saw security increase, a
police force established and a
judge installed to punish those
who broke the law. But things
werenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t perfect. He suffered a
concussion when a roadside
bomb exploded while he was on
a patrol.
In the ensuing chaos, and
despite his concussion, he demonstrated quick thinking and
calm under fire, helping tie a
tourniquet on a fellow Marineâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s
leg â&#x20AC;&#x201D; likely saving his life,
according his father. Dedicated
to the men under his command, he quickly returned to
his deployment after a brief
stint in the hospital. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It was
always about his guys first; it
was never about him,â&#x20AC;? the elder
Manoukian said.
After another tour in Al-Anbar, some time off and training
with the Marine Special Operations Command (MARSOC),
Manoukian joined up with
MARSOCâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 1st Marine Special
Operations Battalion and was
deployed for his third tour, this
time to Afghanistanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Helmand
Province. There he was charged
with unifying local tribal leaders with Afghanistanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s government.
When he returned from his
third tour, Manoukian was put
up for a promotion. He was told
he would be assigned as the
special operations battalionâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s
executive officer. Though his
father said the position would
have put him on track for further promotions, he said his
son felt strongly about seeing
through his previous mission
in Helmand. In a somewhat
unorthodox move, he was able
to convince the higher ups to
allow him to return to his previous assignment, helping set up
a structured legal system in the
province.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the way he was,â&#x20AC;? his
father said, explaining his sonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s
resolve to finish the job he had
started. â&#x20AC;&#x153;A lot of Marines are
like that.â&#x20AC;?
It was a fateful decision.
Death and remembrance
The local Marine returned to
Helmand in May 2012 to resume
working with tribal leaders.
In August, just a few months
after returning, an Afghan man
â&#x20AC;&#x201D; whom Manoukian and his
troops had been working with
for a few months â&#x20AC;&#x201D; came to
talk to Manoukian about something. It was about 2 a.m. in the
morning, local time, but he was
insistent that he speak with the
soldier and became upset when
he was told he needed to take up
his query through other channels. According to Manoukianâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s
father, this angered the man,
who began shooting. A brief fire
fight ensued and Manoukian
was killed. He died on Aug. 10,
2012.
A week later, Manoukian was
remembered in a memorial ceremony held at St. Francis High
School. Local authorities issued
traffic warnings that traffic
and the gym at St. Francis was
packed that day as hundreds of
friends, family, soldiers and other community members showed
up to honor Manoukian.
The military will remember
the fallen Marine once again
on Aug. 8, when they dedicate
the Ceremony Room at Moffett
Field in his honor. According
to 1st Sgt. Angelo McLaurin,
senior enlisted advisor with the
San Jose MEPS, a display case
featuring some of Manoukianâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s
medals, his dress uniform and
memorabilia from the Marineâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s
life will remain on display inside
the ceremony room.
According to Manoukian, his
son was not the type to talk up
his accomplishments, though
he had many â&#x20AC;&#x201D; including two
Purple Hearts and two Navy
and Marine Corps Commendation Medals. However, he added,
considering that the memorial
to be put together in his sonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s
honor will have the potential to
inspire future military recruits,
the younger Manoukian just
might be able to tolerate the
praise.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Our Matthew would not have
wanted all this attention, but, on
the other hand, I think his feelings would be that if his life were
an inspiration to others to do
good things, he be agreeable to
that,â&#x20AC;? Manoukian said, noting
that the memorial is also â&#x20AC;&#x153;meant
to serve as an inspiration to
future men and women who go
through those doors.â&#x20AC;?
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U
nions representing deputies and correctional
officers announced that
members voted in a â&#x20AC;&#x153;landslideâ&#x20AC;? to endorse a candidate
to oppose Santa Clara County
Sheriff Laurie Smith in the June
2014 election.
Leaders of the Deputy Sheriffsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Association Santa Clara
County and the Santa Clara
County Correctional Peace
Officersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Association said they
want Capt. Kevin Jensen to
replace Smith, citing a number
of criticisms of the incumbent,
first elected in 1998.
Deputy Sheriffsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Association
Sgt. Dennis Moser said July 14
that 90 percent of his members
endorsed Jensen while peace
officersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; head Sgt. Lance Scimeca said 100 percent of his group
chose Jensen, although they did
not provide vote totals.
Moser said it was the first
time in 35 years that the unionsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;
members failed to support
an incumbent for sheriff and
described it as â&#x20AC;&#x153;a vote of no
confidenceâ&#x20AC;? in Smith.
Scimeca said the peace officersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; group gave its members
a week to vote and by Sunday,
every ballot cast was for Jensen.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re concerned about the
current lack of vision, inadequate staffing, lack of training, outdated technology and
the isolation of the department
from other law enforcement
agencies inside this county,â&#x20AC;?
Moser said.
The unions are impressed by
Jensenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 28 years of experience
with the sheriff â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s department,
his background with â&#x20AC;&#x153;community outreachâ&#x20AC;? and his willingness to ask sergeants and
lieutenants for advice, Moser
said.
The department is suffering
from low morale, inadequate
computer technology and a fear
of retaliation from Smith for
speaking out, Moser said.
Sheriff â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s deputies are also
concerned that the department
dropped out of the U.S. Joint
Terrorism Task Force and that
Smith seemed not to welcome
officers from the San Jose
Police Department interested
in joining the sheriff â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s office,
Moser said.
Smith also has not kept
promises sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s made, such as
providing appropriate tactical
dress uniforms for wearing in
inclement weather, Moser said.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Laurie Smith has been in
office now for approximately
14 to 15 years, it would be her
fifth term that she is seeking,â&#x20AC;?
Moser said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The community
doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know who the sheriff
is. You can ask them, they
donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know who she is. We
want to change that.â&#x20AC;?
Some correctional officers,
who guard county jail facilities
and whose jobs merged with
the sheriffâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s office in 2010, are
upset with Smith for ordering
extended background checks
and not awarding them sheriffâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s
deputy badges.
Smith won reelection in June
2010 with 62 percent of the vote
against two other candidates,
according to the Registrar of
Voters.
In response to the unionsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;
complaints, Smith said that
when she heard they were considering an endorsement, she
contacted them but they never
responded and did not offer her
name as a candidate.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think they should have
interviewed the candidates,â&#x20AC;?
Smith said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I would have welcomed that.â&#x20AC;?
Smith said she was compelled
to remove some positions from
the federal task force because
she needed to make budget cutbacks that would bring the least
disruption to the department.
She said the department will
be using smart tablets and other
technologies in patrol cars and
that the DSA has been involved
in that process.
Smith said that she is proud of
how the department has dealt
with the influx of inmates into
its county jails due to the statemandated
reassignment of low-level
offenders from California prisons in 2011.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think my record is very
solid,â&#x20AC;? she said.
As for correction officers,
after the merger, Smith said
she gave officers a year to
apply to be sworn deputies and
undergo extensive background
checks that included physical,
polygraph and psychological
testing that take a long time to
complete.
She said the unions sued the
department to stop the background checks she ordered and
now wants them to continue.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;They are saying you canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t do
it, then they are saying do it,â&#x20AC;?
Smith said.
Smith said the departmentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s
personnel division focuses on
hiring the most qualified people
and has brought in former San
Jose police officers in the past.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;We definitely hire as quickly
as we can,â&#x20AC;? Smith said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We get
the very best. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s just a long
process from start to finish.â&#x20AC;?
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m really, really proud of
the organization and we have
great people,â&#x20AC;? Smith said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I
really think that the sheriffâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s
office is one of the preeminent
law enforcement agencies in the
nation. I think the public recognizes that. We have provided
vision. We have been recognized
for the work we do.â&#x20AC;?
Jensen, who was not at the
unionsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; news conference, could
not be reached for comment
Monday.
Moser said that the unions
would be setting up a public
candidates forum â&#x20AC;&#x153;as soon as we
can set something upâ&#x20AC;? for both
Smith and Jensen.
â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Bay City News Service
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